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TI -IE GOLDEN KEY
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Or "The A dventures of Ledgerd."
By the Author of "What He Cost Her."
tand furnished for him. He looked al;
the pile of letters waiting for hint
' upon hia desk, little «Uaio envelopes
many of them, but .all elling the Same
tale, all tributes to. Ina great success,
and the mockery of it all smote hard
upon the Walls of his fortitude. Lpwer
,and. lower MS head chapped until it
was buried -in his folded alms—ahd
the hour which followed he always
reckoned the bitterest, of his life.
CHAPTER Xt.
ttle earlier than usual -next
morabig Trent at his office in the City
prepared fer the worst, and in lee 3
than half an hour be found himselll
face to face with one of those crisee
knoWn to most great financiers at
some time Or other during their lives:
His credit was not actually assailed,
but it was suspended: The general
public did- not understand the situa-
tion, even those who wore in a meas-
ure behind the. scenes found it' hard s
to believe that the attack anon the '
Bekwando Gold- and Land Shares was
purely a personal one. For it was
Da Souza who had fired the ti in, who
had flung his large bolding of shares
Iupon the merket, and, finding them
promptly taken up, had gone about
L, with many pious exchunations of
thankfulness and sinister remarks.
Many smaller holders followed enit,
and yet never for a moment did the ee
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GERMAN GUNS
WERE CAPTURED
GREAT BRIT/SH CHARGE AT
BATTLE OF LOOS.
Dri'c Is Vividly Described by a
Participant in Victorious
Struggle.
The. following ;stirring story of the
'fighting at Loos is by, one of the .20th
London, who was fernierlya member
CHAPTER XXXVIII.--(Cont'd).
The snirits of men and women who
sup are mercurial things, and it was
a gay leave-taking half an hour or so
later in the little Moorish room at the
head of the staircase. But Ernestine
left her host without even appearing
to see his outstretched hand, and he
let her go without a word„„Dely when
Francis would have followed her
'Trent 'laid a heavy hand upon his
shoulder.
"I must have a word with you,
Francis," he said.
"I Will come back," he said. "I
must see Miss Wendermott into her
carriage."
But Trent's band remained there, a
grip of iron from which there was no
escaping. He said nothing, but Fran-
cis knew his man, and had no idea of
making a scene. So he remained till
the.last had gone, and a tall. black ster-
vant had brought their coats from the
cloak -room.
"You will come with ine, please,"
Trent said. "I have a few words to
say to you."
Francis shrugged his shoulders and
obeyed.
CHAPTER XXXIX. -
Scarcely a word passed between the
two men until they found themselves
in the smoking -room of Trent's house.
A servant, noiselesSly arranged de-
canters and cigars upon the sideboard
and, in response to an impatient move-
ment of Trent's, withdrew. Francis
lit a cigarette. Trent, contrary to his
custom, did riot smoke. He walked to
the .door and softly locked it Then
he returned and stood looking down
at his companion.
"Francis," he said "you have been
my enemy since the'day I saw you,
first in Bekwando
"Scarcely that," Francis objected.
"I have distrusted you since then if
you like."
"Call it what you like," Trent an-
swered. "Only to -night you have
served me a scurvy trick. You were
a guest at my table and you gave me
not the slightest warning. On the
contrary, this morning you offered me
a week's respite."
"The story I told,"- Francis an-
swered, "could have had no signific-
ance to them."
"I don't know whether you are try-
ing to deceive me or not," Trent said,
"only if you do not know, let me tell
you—Miss Wendermott fe that old
man's daughter!" •
Theman's start was real. There
was no doubt about that. "And she
knew?" .
"She knew that he had been in
Africa, but she believed that he had
died there. What she believes at this
moment I cannot tell. Your story
evidently moved her. She will prob-
ably try to find out from _you the
truth."
Francis nodded.
"She has asked me to call upon her -
to -morrow."
"Exactly. Now, forgive my troub-
ling you with personal details, but
you've got to understand. I mean
Miss Wendermott to be mywife."
Francis sat up in his chair genuine-
ly sueprised. Something like a
scowl was on his dark, sallow face.
"Your wife" he exclaimed, "aren't
you joking, Trent?"
"I am not," Trent answered sharp-
ly. From the moment I saw her that
has been my fixed intention. Every
one thinks of me as simply a specula-
tor s.vith the money fever in my veins.
Perhaps that was true once. It isn't
now! I must be rich to give her the
position she deserves. That's all I
care for money."' .
° "I am very much interested,"
Francis said slowly, "to hear of Your
intentions. Hasn't it occurred to you,
however, that your behavior towards
Miss Wendermott's father will take a
great deal of explanation?"
"If there is no interference," Trent
said, "I can do it. There is mystery
on her part, too, for I offered a large
reward and news of him through my
solicitor, and she actually refused to
• reply. She has refused any money
accruing to her through her father,
OL' to be brought into contact with any
one who could tell her about him."
"The' fact," Francis remarked drily,
• "Is scarcely to her credit.. Monty
may have been disreputable eneugh,
I've no doubt hewas; but his going
away and staying there all these years
was a piece 'of noble unselfishness."
"Monty has been hardly used in
some ways," Trent said. "I've done
my best by him though:"
"That," Francis said coldly-, "is a
matter of opinion."
"I know very well,". Trent ,answeved,
"what yours is, You are welcome to
it. You tan blackguard me all round
London if you like in a week—but
want a week's grace."
Why should I grant it you?"
Trent shrugged kis shoulders. •
"I won't threaten," he said, "and I
won't offer to bribe you but I've got,
to have that week's grace.We're
both men, Francis, who've been accus-
tomed to our own way, I think. I
want to know on what terms -you'll
grant it me." I
Francis knocked the ash off his cig-
arette and rose slowly to his feet.
"You want to know," he repeated
meditatively, "on what terms I'll hold
My tongue for a week. Well, here's
my answer! On no terms at all!"
"Y.ou don't mean that," Trent said
quietly.
"We shall see," Francis answered
grimly. "I'll be frank with you, Trent.
When we came in here you called me
your enemy. Well, in a sense you
were right. I distrusted and disliked
you from the moment I first met you
in Bekwando village with poor old
Monty for a partner, and read the
agreement you had drawn up and the
.clause about the death of either mak-
ing the survivor sole legatee. In a
regular fever swamp Monty was
drinking poison like water—and you
were watching. That may have seem-
ed all right to you. To me it was
very much like murder. It was my
mistrust of you which made me send
men after you both through the bush,
and, sure enough, they found Monty
abandoned, left to die while you had
hastened off to dam your booty,
After that I had adventures enough of
my ownfor a bit and I lost sight of
you until I came across you and your
gang road -making, and I am bound to
admit that you saved my life. That's
neither here nor there. I asked about
Monty, and you told me some plau-
sible tale. I went to the .place you
spoke of—to find him of course spirit-
ed away. We have met again in Eng-
land, Searle* Trent, and I have ask-
ed once more for Monty. Once more
I am met with evasions. This morn-
ing I granted you a week—now I take
back my word. I am going to make
public what I know to -morrow morn-
ing." •
"Since this morning, then," Trent
said, "your ill will toward me has ins
creased,"
"Quite true," Francis answered.
are playing with the cards upon
the table, so I will be frank with
you. What you told me about your
intentions toward Miss Wendermott
makes me determined to strike at
once!"
"You yourself, I fancy," Trent said
quietly, "admired her?"
"More than any ivoman I have ever
met!" Francis answered promptly,
"and I consider your attitude towards
her grossly presumptuous.
Trent stood quite still fax a mo-
ment --then he unlocked the door.
"You hal better go, Francis," he
said quietly. "I have a defence pre-
pared but I will reserve it And lis-
ten, when I locked that door it was
\Vith a purpose. I had no mind to let
you leave as you are leaving. Never
mind. You can go—only be quick."
Francis paused upon the threshold.
"Yon understand," he said signifi-
cantly.
"I understand," Trent answered:
• An hour passed, and Trent still re-
mained in the chair before his writing -
table, his head upon his hand, his eyes
fixed upon vacancy. Afterwards he
always thought of that hour as one of
the bitterest of his life. A strong and
self-reliant man he had all his life
ignored companionship, had been well
content to live without friends, self-
contained and self -Sufficient. To -night
the spear,. of a great loneliness sat
silently .by his side! His heart was
sore, his pride bad been bitterly touch-
ed, the desire and the whole fabric of
his life was in imminent and serious
danger..
l
The man who ad left him was an
enemy and a prejudiced man, but
Trent kneW that he was honest. .He
was the first -human being to whom
he had ever betrayed the solitary am-
bition Of his life, andhis scornful
Words seemed still to bite the air. If
—he was right! Why not? Trent
looked with keen, merciless eyes
through his past, and saw never a
thing there to make Min glad. He
had started life a workingman, with a
few ambitions all of a material na-
ture—he had lived the life of a cold,
scheming nioney-getter — absolutely
selfish, negatively moral, doing little
evil perhaps, but less good. There
was nothing in his life to make him
worthy of a woman's love, most sure-
ly there was nothing which could ever
make it possible that such a woman
as Ernestine Wendermott should ever
care for him. All the wealth of Af-
rica could never make him anything
different from what he was. And yet,
as he sat and realized this, he knew
that he was writing down his life a
failure. For, beside his desire for
her, there were no other things he
cared for in life. Already .he was
weary of financial warfare—the City
life palled upon lam. He looked
around the magnificent room in the
mansion which his agents had bought
HORSE STEIVIPER
you know that „when yoU soli,. or buy through the sales
have about one chance In fifty to escape sale stablo
distemper. ,,a1.031.Tali" 13 yetir •bus orotectron, ttour only
Oreguq,rd, for as sure as, you t1•043t all your horses .with 13
yeu Winssoon 'he Ad of tho diseftee, /t acts as a Sure
Veritative, 10 Matter hoW they are, sexpeeeiteeoosWa
.0.114 by all good en,ugalats, bork goods houses, or de.
ivered by the manufacturers. •
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About the
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Useful Hints and
General informa-
tion for the Busy
Housewife
market waver. Gradually it leaked .
Out that Scarlett Trentwae the buyer, Help for Rome Laundries.
and public interest leaped up at once. Every
Would Trent be able to face settnthe T
g with woman who hes -wrestled
roblem of looking well on a
arnall income realizes that the ability
upon the market? If so the bulls
were going to have the worst knock to dethings for herself goes a long
they had had for years—and yet, -and , "Y toward its solution. A crumpled
yet—the murmur went round from blouse or a soiled vestee will spoil the
frimid to friend—"Sell yam Bekwan- effect of an otherwise ,sinart costume,
dos." ' but professional cleaning is afiva.ys
At midday there came an urgent expensive, and apparently one must
message from Trent's bankers, and be born with a talent for laundry work
just as one must be born with a talent
for music.. So if you have a knack
for wielding a smoothing iron and ap-
day without putting Els vast holdings
as he read it he cursed. It was short
but eloquent.
Dear Sir,—We notice that your
account to -day stands at 2119,000 Plying soap and water rejoice, and if
overdrawn, against which we hold as you haven't—well .perhaps even then
collateral security sharbs in the Bek- you may find these suggestions worth
wando Land Company to the value of while.
£150,000. As we have seceived certain Never wash your sheer blouse, col -
very disquieting information concern- lar, etc., without mending any tiny
ing the value of these shares, we must rips or breaks that mayhave ap-
ask you to adjust the account before
peered, nor -without removing possible
closing hours to -day, or we shall
conmelle&to plate the shares upon the stains. There are, of course, many
meTket, proprietary cleansers and gain eradi-
"Ymirs -truly, caters on the market, whose merits
"A,. Sinclair, GennIanager.". have no part in an article like thiS.
(To be continued.) But it is well to remember that most,
but not all, fruit stains and those
CANADIAN FISH IN LONDON. made by tea or coffee can be removed
by pouring boiling water over the
Trial Consigiiment Brings Fancy spot. Blood stains should be soaked
Prices Overseas. in cold water, then washed in cold
water, then in warm water with plenty
A trial consignment of Ca_mdian of soap. Ink spots should be rinsed
fish, shipped frozen, has just been in repeated cold waters, then soaked
sold for fancy prices on the London in milk. Neither pold Water nor milk
market. The British Government, is
said to regard the experiment as ex-
ceedingly important, in view of the
Ottawa assertion that 'with proper
facilities 2,000,000 pounds of fish 'per
week can be supplied for English
markets.
Those who believe that such a trade
on a permanent basis would prove
beneficial to both Canada and the mo-
ther country are urging that a small
guarantee per pound be placed on con-
signments fax a time fbr the benefit
of shippers. ,
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FAMOUS INN CLOSED.
"The Three Pigeons" Ilas Many
Literary Associations.
"The Three Pigeons," one of Eng-
land's oldest and most famous inns,
and the sole existing tavern of Eliza-
bethan times, was closed recently by
the Middlesex Licensing Justices
accordance with a movement inaugu-
rated some thne ago by the temper-
ance leaders to restrict the number of
licensed inns. The inn was used as a
background for the low comedy scenes
in the "Merry Wives of Windsor," and
Goldsmith's "She Stoops to ,Conquer,"
and is alluded to in Dickens' "Our Mu-
tual . Friend." The inn perhaps has
had more literary associations than
any other English tavern.
Little Pete's Defence.
At a meeting of the Canadian -
American Society in a Maine town
one evening recently, two members of
the organization fell to clisputhig
which had the smarter children. Joe
Belanger was proclaimed the victor
when he came to the front with the
following!
"De.nodder day my leetle boys Pete
was go on de schoolhouses wid hees
leetle dog. De teacher gets mad wid
de boy and tol' heern for go back on
de house jes' so quick he can't and
took de deg and never bring heem
back som' more. Leetle Pete do jes'
w'at de teachers is tol' it, Biineby
Leetle Pete is go back on de school-
house and jes' so soon he set heemself
downs som' leetle clogs was -cbm' in
and stin' up on front of Leetle Pete.
De teacher was get mooch mad and
say, 'Pete, w'at for you _bring back
dat dog w'en I tol' you never bring
back dat dog sone more?'
"Leetle Pete is start' up and say,
'T'eachers, dis don't was de sam' dog;
she's nodder one. I got two of it.'"
More to See.
Gosling—"Hullo, old man, how are
you? I haven't seen much of you
1 ately."
Maddox—"You have 'seen more of
me than I have of you."
Gosling—"How do you make that
out"
Maddox—"Well, midi bigger
than ,you."
So Flat.
Little Boy—"Didn't you get wound-
ed at all?"
Soldier—"No, not at all."
Little ,Boy—"Not even a slight
wound?" '
Soldier—"Not even a scratch.:'
Little Boy—"Why, you might just
isa well have stayed at home."
"Why So?
"Oh, yes, we aro eagaged to he
married next spring. But I fear she
has not that utter confidence in me
that comes with perfect love." "Why
o?" "Wen, when a fellow looks
back—as fellows th love naturally
will, you know—and sees her testing
the diamond in her engagement ring
on the window -pane, don't you think
he has good cause to feel a bit ihibi-
ous?
will fix a stain.
Never wash white and colored fab-
rics in the same water, and in wash-
ing colored fabrics do not fail to "set"
the colors. One method of doing this
is to soak the garments overnight in
a solution made by dissolving one
ounce of sugar of lead in eight quarts
of cold water. Another method is to
rinse in salt water, using two rinsing
waters. A third is to put a cup of
vinegar in the final rinsing water.
Wash colored fabrics in Wa1111, not
hot water and do not rub soap on
them; dry them in the shade and as
quickly as possible. Some domestic
science experts wash fine colored
clothes in starch water instead of with
soap. They use a quart of strained
starch to four quarts of water, and a
quart of the starch to eight of the
water in the second.
Wash silk, crepe de chine or Georg-
ette crepe garments in lukewarm
soapsuds, rinse in water of the same
temperature and press before they are
quite dry. Never use board or wring-
er fax these delicate pieces, but pat
and press with tho halide. Corduroy
skiets are washed in the same way,
and if they are pinned carefully upon
the line and. allowed to flap in the
wind you will find it unnecessary to
iron them. 'Where white silk gar-
ments show Signs of tinting yellow it
it well to add a little borax to the wa-
ter in which they are \wished.
If you have found the ordinary
starch unsatisfactory when "doing
up" your fine lingerie try making
starch either 01 borax or gum rabic.
The borax method is the simpler in
that it is merely added to the rinsing
water (two heaping teaspoonfuls of
borax to five quarts of water is the
proportion) and gives the garments
when ironed just the right amount of
crispness. To make gum arabic starch
use half an ounce of the gum arabic
to a cup of boiling water. Dilute to
euit your taste in stiffneas and use as
you' would the common laundry var-
iety.
Never iron your dainty dress acces-
sories on a sheet that is not immacu-
late nor with an :iron that is not above
suspicion. If you are the fortunate
possessor of a gas or an electric iron,
so much the better, but keep any kind
clean. See to it that your board is
well padded and evenly covered,
otherwise the lumps may mar the ap-
pearance of your finished work.
Dainty Dishes.
Raisin Sauce.—One cup quartered
raisins, one and one-half cups cold
water, one-half cup sugar, juice one-
half lemon. Simmer raisins in water
until soft, add sugar, boil gently fif-
teen minutes and jest before serving
flavor with lemon juice.
Carrot GrOuettes.—Boil carrots
tender in two waters, mash smooth,
add beaten egg, one large teaspoonful
melted butter, pepper and salt to
taste, and set -paste aside until cool
enough to handle. Fenn into cro-
quettes, roll in fine crumbs, Set in
cold place ,for one-half hour or long-
er, and fry in deep fat until well
browned'.
Amber Pudding.—Into one pint
scalded milk stir one cupful yellow
corn meal and one quart sliced sweet
apples. -Add one-half teaspoonful
salt and one cupful molasses. Mix all
thoroughly; add ,two quarts of milk,
and pour into largo buttered dish and
bake in slow oven four hours. When
cold, a clear, amber -colored jelly will
have forced through the pudding and
apples will be rich brown;
Bed Cabbage.—One medium-sized
head red cabbage, one large tart ap-
ple, one onion, two tablespoons beef
drippings or laed, one-fourth teaspoon
pepper, three cloves, . one tablespoon
salt, one cup water, one-half cup vine-
gar. Shred cabbage and wash 111
cold water. Melt drippings in heavy
kelt e, acid cabbage, onion in which
cloves have been stuck, apple in quar-
ters and remaining ingredients. Cover
tight and simmer about two and one-
half hours,' adding more water if
needed. -
Nut Croquettes.—One cup stale
ground crumbs one cup milk, one or
Iwo slightly beaten egg yolks, three-
fourths cup broken walnut meats, one-
third teaspoon onion juice,. one-half
teaspoon salt and few grains pepper.
Mix and form into balls containing
about one tablespoon each; roll in ex-
tra crumbs, dip in beaten egg diluted
with one-fourth cup water and roll
again in bread crumbs. Let stand
until wanted, then fry in deep fat hot
enough to brown a bit of bread in
forty seconds. •
Oyster Shortcake.—For the filling:
One quart oysters, two tablespoons
butter, two tablespoons flour, one
scant cup milk, salt, pepper and cel-
ery salt. For the shortcake: Two
cups flour, two teaspoons baking pow-
der, one-half teaspoon salt, one-fourth
teaspoon lard, butter or drippings,
three -.fourths cup milk. Sift together
flour, salt and baking powder of short-
cake, and mix with mullc, If cake Is
to be made in one instead of several
individual portions, divide dough into
two parts and roll each thin, place
one above the other, putting small
pieces of butter between, and bake.
Fax individual service roll dough
thin, cut into small rounds, put two
together, with bit of butter between,
and bake. Tor filling make sauce of
butter, flour and milk. Have oysters
ready, cooked in enough of their
liquor to thin white sauce, when add-
ed, to consistency of thin -cream. Sea-
son, put portion between layers of
shortcake and some on top and serve.
Handy Hints.
For Damp Feathers.—Throw some
salt on the fire and hold the feathers
over it, shaking them vigorously.
Don't put them so near the fire that
they will burn. ,
To Clean Cloth.—To clean black
cloth or serge, take a large handful
of .ivy leaves. Steep them well in I
boiling water and leave until cold.
Sponge the material with this infa-
sion and it will be both clean and re-
vived.
Fax Toothache. --slake a fresh cab-
bage leaf and roll it with the rolling- I
pin to crush all the veins. Then hold!
it to the fire till it is as hot as can be
bone. Tie it on the face before go-
ing to bed. This is a shnple, but an
almost certain cure.
Bright Saucepans.—If sauespans or
kettles have to be used over a smoky I
fire, try smearing a little grease over
the bright parts. This will 'prevent
the smoke from blackening them. If
washed afterwards in hat water the
pan will be as bright as ever.
Cure for Creaking Shoes.—Take a
fine awl or a darning needle and in-
sert it carefully between the soles of
the shoes. Then introduce a little
paraffin oil. A small oil -can such as
is used to .lubricate sewing machines
may be used fax the purpose. This
will quite take away the creaking.
How to Keep Butter in Hot W.eather
—Put the butter into a basin. Then
take an ordinary plant pot, put a
cork in the bottom and see that it is
perfectly clean. Then fill with water
and leave for one hour longer, then
empty and place over the butter. The
moisture from the plant pot keeps
the butter nice and firm.
Fax women of limited means it is
best to have two or three pairs og, in-
exneaSive corsets', nither than one
expensive pair. Try to change youv
corsets every day. Never Wear the
same pair two clays running. The
corsets that are not in use can he
straightened out and aired. An ex-
pensive corset must be sent to the
cleaners occasionally, but it is quite
possible to clean a cheap pair at
home; of course, they may not look
so well as the one cleaned by a pro-
fessional cleaner. This is how to clean
corsets. Stretch on a board and scrub
with a brush clipped in soapy water, to
which a little borax has been added.
They should be scrubbed until- as
mirth dirt as possible, has been re-
nioved, And then they should be 'rins-
ed in clear water. Pui the Corsets
out flat on a board to dry in the air,'
but not in the sun.
s
In a Hurry.
A. very small boy was taken to a
dental establishment °to have some
of his first teeth pulled: For a sec-
ond or so during which time four teeth
disappeared, ' everything was fairly
serene, and than came howls of objec-
tions. "I didn't want them teeth to
come out!" cried the young patient,
suddenly recollecting something. "I
want- thern to stay in." "That's all
right," consolingly responded the den-
tist. "They will', grow in again.
"Will they'?" quickly rejoined the boy
with a brightening face. "Do you
think they will MIN( iv time fon 31111-
1105 ?"
An ignorant man is usually igne
ant of the fact that be is ignorant.
It had been the talk 'of the
trenches for weeks. Piatoon command-
ers and company Commanders lec-
tured us about it, joked' about it,
swore about it, and speculated on it,
and we, mere, privates of the line,
had the audacity to criticize it.
From what I could gather fr-Orn
the liarious lectures, heart-to-heart
talks, rumors, and my own imagine-
twn,,the 2nd London Division Oath
Division) Were to take the principal
part in the greatest assault lautiche.d
against the Teutonic artnteS sinc0!
the beginning oil the war. We, the
20th London Regiment, were to fel-
low the London Irish when they had
occupied the German first line and
rush on to the second defence.s. It
all sounded very Mice and simple in
cold, precise English; but we had
our doubts. Previous experience had
taught us that German barbed wire
has an awkward knack of remaining
intact after a bombardment, and the
British artillery- had for the past six
months been curiously short of
s e s.
The morning of December 26
dawned cold and wet. Slimy mud
clung to us; drizzling rain soaked us
through and through and damped
everything save our spirits.
It was exactly at 6,15 a.m., and
who am a pessimist by nature, allow-
ed myself just twenty minutes to live.
Unlike most heroes who are about to
die, I did not call down the blessings
of the saints upon my relatives, or re-
gret that I had teased my little sister
in her early youth. -It was too wet
for 'regrets or heroics.
I looked at tbe watch on my wrist
again and found it jug on 5.30.
Everybodyaround me was trying
to look unconcerned, but the twitch-
ing of lips and furtive glances at
photographs and soiled letters be-
trayed nerves strung to the highest
pitch.
Sudden Quiet.
Suddenly the' bombardment, which
had, been practically continuoua for
the past three days, ceased. Not a
shell shrieked; not a gun thundered.
The silence, after that indescribable
clin, seemed oppressive and unnatural.
The earth seemed to tremble and then
lie still as if recovering from a blow.
I took a deep breath and pressed my
hand to my aching temples, and look-
ed wonderingly upon a new and silent
world.
Then the man next to me broke the
silece.
"The
London Irish are going over,"
he whispered.
A wild shout—a real Irish shout—
from hundreds of kish threat* rent
the air'and through a periscope
watched a Wave of khaki clamber
and struggle out of the trench 01
front and rush madly towards the
German lines. I fully expected to
see those little drab figures flounder
helplessly on the Go -man barbed
wire to be slangbored by a merci-
less machine-gun fire'and my heart
stood still. But the khaki line swept
on, llesciiess 05 tilis 301
wrotight by the Geeman fire, and fin-
ally disappeared in the enemy's
trench,
London's ,Turn.
"It's our turn now," beamed an
officer, "and we've got shrapnel to go
through as well as bullets!'
"And perhaps a little high explos-
ive to give it a flavor," I added, with
a grim attempt at humor.
Once again, I looked at my watch.
It was 0.36. , .
"Twentieth Lon-dern " bawled
somebody on my right, with an accent
on the "ern." "On the sound of the
whisuttiris - v"
Boice was drowned by the
explosion of a couple of very "sooty"
"coal -boxes."
Then a little thin squeal bloated
plaintively above the roar oil artil-
lery, and I saw the man on my left
scramble over the parapet. I grab-
bed ray rifle in my right hand, dug
my teoS into the sandbags,threw
myself over, and rushed for Die slag
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But at that wild moment the upper-
most desire in my flemented.brain was
to kill, to drive that ugly bayonet,
bristling wickedly at the end of my
rifle, through a German, and when /
bad witbdravfn it, red and slippery
with blood, to drive it through more
Germans, until there were none left
alive and the -world was free. And
so I began to imagine myself as a
sullour of the universe and thought
that I was destined to end the -war.
But the madness SOUR passed, for I
was getting out of breath, and bullets
and shell were missing me
lni
The battalion, having passed the
London Irish, was gathering itself
together to rush the second line in
full force. I held nip breath and
spurted on again. The fire was get-
ting hotter. Two machine guns
rattled viciously on our right, and
there was an enfilading rifle fire
from the same quarter. In front of'
us some half dozen M01311 machine
guns spat death at the rate of 700
rounds a minute, and the German
artillery plumped shells into our
midst.
The enemy trenches were but fifty
yards in front of me, and in that last
rush I think I became insane.
German Bayoneted.
• I can only remember seeing two
Germans—one portly and middle-
aged and the other a sallow youth
wearing spectacles, and a downy
growth of beard on his . face. The
first one I• bayoneted just between
the ribs before his thick, fleshy lips
had time to cry "Kamerad!" The
second, who showed a little fight, I
caught under the jaw with an up -
Ward swing of my rifle -butt. I left
him lying at the bottom of the trench
nursing his face. Then I went on-
wards towards the village of Loos. I
started running at first, but soon
found that the battalion was advanc-
ing in extended order at a walking
pace. Therewas a third line of Ger-
man trench to .be captured, but no
Germans remained there to hold the
position, so we simply strolled over
it towards our objective.
The shelling became intense, and
as fax as I could judge we must have
lost nearly a quarter of our effectives
up .to that moment.
Then we 301811031 Loos. Our bombars
!went first, throwing their missies with
deadly accuracy right into masses of
fleeing Germans and driving them
out of -fortified houses and cellars.
In the Chalk Pit.
Suddenly a cry went up among us,
"The guns in the chalk pit!1)'
It was taken up and passed from
inouth to mouth. "The guns in the
chalk pit!" Then about thirty of us
inclined half right and charged. Over
the slag heaps we went with blood.
curdling yells and flashing bayonets
and down the chalky slope. The
German gunners with the exception
of one officer and a wounded man, did
not wait for us.
The bayonets were lowered. Some-
body unloaded the two guns and an-
other tampered with the breech-
blocks. They were ours!
'
Feel Better Filled.
"Mamma, Pse got a stornath ache,"
said Nellie Blyth, aged six. "That's
because you have been without lunch.
Your stomach is empty. You would
:feel better if you had something in
it." That afternoon the miniater call-
ed, and in course of conversation re-
marked that he had been suffering all
day with a severe headache. "That's
because it's empty," said Nellie.
"You'd feel better if you bad some.
thing in it"
Up -to-Da Le.
"How is Dr. Wombat as a phy.
Sidaii?"
"Best ever. 'When sou get ex.
hausted over bridge les prescribei
dancing as a rest cure."
"Why are laundry women the most
forgiving beings on earth ?" "Be.
armee the more cuffs you give then
heaps. line more they do for you," •
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